GNU Emacs Alternatives

Vim dates back all the way to 1991 when Vim's author, Bram Moolenaar released it to the public. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. The software is released as free and open-source software under the Vim License. Vim is often called a "programmer's editor," as it relies more on customization of shortcuts and makes heavy use of macros that can be combined with muscle memory to achieve maximum proficiency. Vim was designed for use in both command-line interfaces and as a standalone application in a graphical user interface.

A free and open-source IDE for macOS, Linux, and Windows developed by GitHub Inc. The application is build on the Electron framework and provides a wide eco-system of add-ons that can be used to extend the IDE further. Atom is loved by developers across the globe.

PhpStorm is a commercial, cross-platform IDE specifically designed for PHP developers. The IDE provides on-the-fly code analysis, error prevention and automated refactoring for PHP, HTML and JavaScript code. PhpStorm is loved by professional Symfony, Laravel, Drupal, WordPress, Zend Framework, Magento, Joomla!, CakePHP, Yii developers across the globe.

WebStorm is a smart JavaScript IDE developed by JetBrains. With WebStorm you can run unit testing and debug tests with Karma, Mocha, Protractor, and Jest. All tests are available in a handy tree-view within the editor itself and can easily be navigated to and inspected. WebStorm also provides intelligent code competition, error detection, powerful navigation and refactoring for JavaScript, TypeScript, stylesheet languages and popular JavaScript frameworks.

A free and open-source lightweight GUI text editor using Scintilla and GTK with basic IDE features. Geany is designed and developed with performance in mind, and provides limited dependency on separate packages or external libraries on Linux. Geany is available for a wide variety of operating systems including BSD, Linux, macOS, Solaris and Windows.

Over 4 million people use UltraEdit for their development needs. UltraEdit is flexible, powerful, and secure text editor that provides powerful and intuitive multi-caret editing and multi-selection capabilities, HTML and Markdown live preview, advanced file and folder search, horizontal editing through column mode and much more. UltraEdit also integrates with FTP, SSH and Telnet, making it easy to push your code to remote servers without CI/CD. The software is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

With RubyMine you can produce high-quality code more efficiently, thanks to first-class support for Ruby and Rails, JavaScript and CoffeeScript, ERB and HAML, CSS, Sass and Less, and more. RubyMine is IDE specifically designed for the programming language Ruby. It allows developers to take advantage of the language specific-aware syntax & error highlighting, code formatting, code completion, and quick documentation.

A free and open source IDE based on Electron and Atom, developed by Microsoft. Visual Studio Code or VS Code is an extensible IDE or coding editor that is loved by many developers around the globe. The editor combines a streamlined UI with advanced code assistance, code nagivation and intellisense.

TextWrangler is an all-purpose text and code editor for macOS. TextWrangler is now BBEdit.